Carlito's Way [Ultimate Edition] DVD

Carlito's Way
Carlito's Way is a tale of a former hood trying to escape his former life. Al Pacino is Carlito Brigante, a high-level Puerto Rican drug dealer sprung from a three-decade jail sentence after only five years, thanks to a technicality and his sleazy, cocaine-addled lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn). Carlito renounces his previous ways and takes a job as the manager of a club that Kleinfeld has invested in, planning to save enough money so that he can eventually move to the Caribbean. But no sooner is Carlito back on the streets of New York than his old life claws at him in the form of both old partners (Luis Guzman) and vicious up-and-comers (John Leguizamo). Nevertheless, Carlito stays clean and even restarts his relationship with a dancer named Gail (Penelope Ann Miller), until he is finally led astray by Kleinfeld, who manipulates Carlito into participating in the murder of a Mafia don from whom Kleinfeld has stolen a million dollars. At that point, the race is on to see whether Carlito and Gail can escape his world for good. The film is based on two novels about Carlito written by New York State judge Edwin Torres. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide

Cast Al Pacino as Carlito Brigante Sean Penn as David Kleinfeld Penelope Ann Miller as Gail Luis Guzman as Pachanga John Leguizamo as Benny Blanco Ingrid Rogers as Steffie Viggo Mortensen as Lalin James Rebhorn as Norwalk Joseph Siravo as Vinnie Taglialucci Richard Foronjy as Pete Amadesso Jorge Porcel as Saso Adrian Pasdar as Frankie

Crew Gregory W.M. Bolton - Art Director Judith Stevens - Associate Producer Jeffery Hornaday - Choreography Aude Bronson-Howard - Costume Designer Chris Soldo - First Assistant Director Brian De Palma - Director Kristina Boden - Editor Bill Pankow - Editor Louis A. Stroller - Executive Producer Ortwin Freyermuth - Executive Producer Patrick Doyle - Composer (Music Score) Jellybean Benitez - Musical Direction/Supervision Michael Laudati - Makeup Richard Sylbert - Production Designer Judith Stevens - Production Designer Stephen H. Burum - Cinematographer Michael S. Bregman - Producer Willi Baer - Producer Martin Bregman - Producer Leslie Pope - Set Designer Nancy Deren - Set Designer Les Lazarowitz - Sound/Sound Designer Peter Odabashian - Sound Editor David Koepp - Screenwriter Edwin Torres - Book Author

Carlito's Way
By the early '90s, the initial controversy surrounding Brian De Palma' violent remake of Scarface had evaporated and the film had become something of a high-profile cult classic. A re-teaming of the film's director and star Al Pacino, Carlito's Way was marketed as its followup -- and it is, though not necessarily in the way most would expect. While Scarface starred Pacino as a character whose all-encompassing appetite leads him to climb higher and higher in the underworld, in Carlito's Way he plays a world-weary character seeking only to get out. In place of the drug-fueled mania of Tony Montana, Pacino uses silence and knowing looks to convey a miles-deep sadness. It's a masterful performance in a film that has much to recommend it, in particular a handful of deftly-executed set pieces, a tremendous feel for its disco-era setting, and a terrific supporting cast (Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo, and especially Sean Penn). But ultimately it's the elegiac mood of the film that stays longest in the memory, as De Palma and company escalate B-movie material into a meditation on aging and fate. Severely underrated at the time, this is a film that just looks better as the years go by. (In fact, Cahiers Du Cinema would later pronounce it the best of the decade.) ~ Keith Phipps, All Movie Guide
 

Penelope Ann Miller: Golden Globe, Best Supporting Actress (nominated) Sean Penn: Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French, Spanish Subtitle Options: French, Spanish Sound Processing: DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel DDM2.0: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (Recorded in mono, but split to give the illusion of a stereo mix on home theater systems). DTS: Digital Theater Systems (akin to 5.1) Additional Features: cc All-new deleted scenes "Brian De Palma on Carlito's Way" -- Get an insider's perspective with the director "The Making of Carlito's Way" -- In-depth interviews with the cast and crew reveal Carlito's journey from novel to screen DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1: Cinemascope MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 2 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 145 min   DVD Chapters: Disc #1, Side A -- Carlito's Way: Feature Film 1. Close to the Ground [5:03] 2. A Free Man [12:38] 3. The Legend's Cousin [9:57] 4. Saso's Place [4:21] 5. Benny Blanco From the Bronx [4:33] 6. One Face That Still Knows You [8:49] 7. Taglialucci's Plan [5:11] 8. A Standup Guy [8:01] 9. Gail's Job [4:53] 10. A Problem With Benny [8:09] 11. Kleinfeld's Dilemma [5:43] 12. If You Can't Get In... [7:18] 13. That Bad Drinker Face [9:01] 14. Crossing the Line [11:33] 15. The D.A.'s Tape Recording [7:08] 16. One Last Piece of Business [5:08] 17. Amadesso's Angle [5:50] 18. On the Run [10:29] 19. Paradise Lost [5:05] 20. End Titles [5:02]